On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:11:15 -0800, Dan Abel > wrote:

>In article > ,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> We are in the middle of a cold snap. It got down near 0 F last night and
>> only up to about 10 degrees in the afternoon. That calls for comfort
>> food. I made some rice pudding this afternoon and will do meat loaf for
>> dinner tonight.
>
>Weather here is really weird. A few days ago it was 28F in the morning,
>which is cold for here. Two days ago it got up to 80F in the afternoon.
>Today got up to 70F. I'm worried that the plants will get confused,
>because it will get colder before spring.

We had that a few years ago. The perennials starting coming up in
late January and then it got cold again. Most of them looked sad all
summer if they survived.

Lou